SANE Meeting Tuesday 23 October 7pm

SANEsters,

Most everybody replied, and the verdict is in: The next/first SANE meeting will be a week from this Tuesday, October 23, at 7:00pm, at Pam A's house:

Let's repeat:

When:  Tuesday, 23 October 2012

Where:  Pam A's house

Project: Bendy people/shelf people/paper people/martha people, etc.

Card stock would be a good idea - and Betsey wondered about how the bent people would stay bent -- suggesting cardboard easelbacks to past on the backs. Think of these as collages, decorated however you like. Could be fun, and very distinctive. More detail follows, in the copies of previous emails.

If you're not getting these emails, please let me know! There was a problem in the mail room, and the marginally efficient bugger responsible for addresses has been sacked.

To those who can't make it to the meeting on this date, I'm very sorry, and we hope to see this whole happy family together again in Nowonder.

Redondo

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Okay, it turns out the Presidential Knife-fight is at 9pm on Tuesday -- they had the bad taste to schedule it the same night as the first SANE meeting of the season, but, as we all know, politics sux. Some patriotic SANEsters have indicated an interest in watching this, so the time and/or location is up in the air again. Can people get back to me with a preference on meeting time, and we'll see if we can find a place.

Option 1) Tuesday 10/16 7:00pm - same-o same-o

Option 2) Tuesday 10/16 6:30pm - start earlier so we can get home for the Pres thing

Option 3) Wednesday 10/17 7:00pm we can talk about the knife-fight the day after

Option 4) Tueday 10/23 7:00pm - a week later

Please write back with preferences (wade in on several options, if you can) and we'll try to get this sorted out ASAP.

papercraft -- paper people who sit on your shelves

martha people -- martha stewart's take on shelf people - requires roof flashing (soft metal)

  string puppets -- fine art puppets (scroll down beyond wood fella)

SANE Meeting Tuesday, October 16

Yay! It's time for the first meeting of the year!!! Gosh, it seems like years since the LobsterPalooza! Umm, lobster! Oh, sorry, I lost myself for a second...

So more folks can make it on Tuesday, October 16 (which is a week from several days ago), and Ms. Pam has offered to host us again, and we have some concensus on a project, so, hey, let's get together and make some bendy people!

You're invited:

When: Tuesday, October 16, 7:00pm

Where: Pam A's dining room

Project: Bendy people/shelf people/paper people/martha people, etc.

papercraft -- paper people who sit on your shelves
martha people -- martha stewart's take on shelf people - requires roof flashing (soft metal)
string puppets -- fine art puppets (scroll down beyond wood fella)

We'll make people who can sit (to pick a place) on your shelves, refrigerator, atop your old CRT TV, mantlepiece, windowsill, etc. They are basically one-dimensional, folded (at the waist and knee, say) to create an illusion of three-dimensionality and support their sitting habits.

What to bring: paper, colored paper, photos, xerox copies of faces/body parts, glue, cardboard, roof flashing (optional), the usual array of cutting and drawing/inking tools and some idea whose bodies you want to immoralize [sic] in craft.

And it's been several years since we last got together, so make some notes from now until Tuesday of things that have happened to you and yours in the intervening time, so you can be sure to keep us updated!

And we'll want to plan out some meetings in the future, so think about when you want to get together in November, December, and/or a December Seasonal SANE Repast.

Hope to see y'all Tuesday!

Richster

SANE misses September meeting, scrambles to save October

I blame myself -- did not get on the scheduling soon enough, and now it's nearly October! We didn't have a quorum (or even a half-dinar) to get in a meeting before September skulked back into its cave, put on its sleepy mask and nod off until August bangs on it's door again in 2013, so I' trying to sneak up on October (2012) so we can hogtie it before its alarm goes off.

Oddly, I have an ache in my metaphorhead.

Early Oct is difficult for some, so I'm thinking Oct 16 (Flip's Natal Day) or Oct 23 (Flip's Natal One-Week anniversary). We don't need to do something Halloweenish, but could. Other project suggestions/inspirationals that have come to me in the intervening months since LobsterPalooza are:

papercraft -- paper people who sit on your shelves

cement bleak -- images in metal strainers/screens

string puppets -- fine art puppets and/or coffee tables

Although there's always orizomegamy (or the other two names we've used for folding paper and adding inkage. Kinda tie-dyed paper-ish. Or Gocco, or Rocky Rococo, Or Bobby Valentine Voo-doo That You-Do So Well dolls. or we could do anything, anything at all.

Sorry about Sept., it's been a very fast month so far anyway. Send me your choice/options for Oct, and we'll try to get that nailed down. In this metaphor, the meeting date is NOT a bear or anything that lives in a cave, because nailing it down would then be cruel, not to mention dangerous.

SANE Meeting

Okay, September's nearly mid-way done, and I haven't prompted us about a meeting, and we haven't had a meeting, and, yes, I'm a slug. So how 'bout it, wanna get together and put on a show? Or we could meet. Tuesdays left over in Sep include the 18th and 25th.

Betsey sent along a project inspirational: http://artstormer.com/tag/claire-oswalt/

Not the coffee table feller near the top (the image didn't appear to me, but it links), I don't think, but scroll further down.

There were other projects what I can't remember right now. Remind me!

Send in your votes, if'n you wanna hotes (or host, if you don't need it to rhyme).

Sue you seen!

R